If a page is already mapped RW without the DIRTY flag, the DIRTY flag is never set and a TLB store miss exception is taken forever. This is easily reproduced with the following app: void main(void) { volatile char *ptr = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); *ptr = *ptr; } When DIRTY flag is not set, bail out of TLB miss handler and take a minor page fault which will set the DIRTY flag. Fixes: f8b58c64eaef ("powerpc/603: let's handle PAGE_DIRTY directly") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.1+ Reported-by: Doug Crawford <doug.crawford@intelight-its.com> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/80432f71194d7ee75b2f5043ecf1501cf1cca1f3.1566196646.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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